Spanish, French, & Portuguese Terms:

  • affrachies: ? affranchies - cleared (French)
  • Americanos: American
  • bandeirantes: "followers of the banner" were Portuguese colonial scouts in Brazil
  • blanc menants: White driving members
  • cafe com leite: coffee with milk?
  • cientificos: scientists
  • creoles:a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America
  • concilliancao:
  • Concordancia:
  • Cordobazo: The Cordobazo was a civil uprising in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, in the end of May 1969, during the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía
  • desaparcecidos:
  • Estato Novo:
  • hacendo or estanciero: rancher, owner of an estancia
  • hacienda: a large estate, sometimes a mine or a plantation of some sort.
  • grand blancs:
  • guilombos:
  • indios barbarous:
  • Integralismo Brasileiro:
  • peninsulars: a person of pure Spanish descent born in Spain
  • Maroons:Wild savage
  • Mazorca: corn cob; roll of wool or cotton.
  • mestizos: a person of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent
  • mulattos: a person who's ethic heritage is mixed (i.e. a white mother and a black father). Mulattos are often shunned by both races because they are not fully, "one of us."
  • Nuevo Hombre: Literally translates to 'New Man'.
  • La Reforma: La Reforma was a period halfway through the 19th century in the history of Mexico that was characterized by liberal reforms and the transformation of Mexico into a nation state.
  • republica de los indois:
  • Rosistas:
  • Rulales:
  • Tontons Macoutes:
  • Unitarios: Unitarianists (in Spanish, Unitarios) were the proponents of the concept of a centralized government in Buenos Aires during the civil wars which shortly followed the Declaration of Independence of Argentina in 1816. They were opposed to the Argentine Federalists